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Those who "perform drag" as comedy do so while wearing dramatically heavy and often elaborate makeup, wigs, and prosthetic devices (breasts) as part of the performance costume. Women who dress as men and perform as hypermasculine men are sometimes called drag kings; however, drag king also has a much wider range of meanings. It is currently ...
Drag queens vary by type, culture, and dedication, from professionals who star in films and spend a lot of their time in their drag personas, to people who do drag only occasionally. Women who dress as men and entertain by imitating them are called drag kings. Those who do occasional drag may be from other backgrounds than the LGBT community.
A drag show is a form of entertainment performed by drag artists impersonating men or women, typically in a bar or nightclub as a burlesque-style, adult-themed nightclub event. The modern drag show originated in the speakeasies and underground bars of 1920s and 1930s Prohibition America, in what was known as the Pansy Craze. Drag became a part ...
Seven drag queens on gender, power, and the joy of performance.
While the performance of drag is as old as time, it inarguably reached a wider, mainstream audience 15 years ago with the advent of RuPaul’s Drag Race. The competition-style series has since ...
an established drag queen who mentors a new queen, her "daughter"; many queens use the same last name as their drag mother, creating "family" lineages, sometimes called "houses" eat it a "confident expression" used by Latrice Royale ( season 4 ; All Stars seasons 1 and 4) "when she is feeling fabulous...
RuPaul’s Drag Race shone a light on the U.S. drag scene. But increased attention can beget hate and sometimes it’s safer to be a drag queen abroad.
A British lesbian cabaret organization called Lesburlesque made it part of their mission to promote drag kings on the wider British cabaret circuit. Their founder Pixie Truffle gave an interview to the Guardian newspaper in the United Kingdom on her desire for drag kings to close the gap with queens and with male stand-up comedians.